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Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record

Posted by timothy on from the dropped-my-pen dept.

disco_tracy writes "US Submarines CEO Bruce Jones and his team have just announced that they've developed new technology for a submersible that could take ocean explorers 36,000 feet deep, to the bottom of the Pacific's Mariana Trench."

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  1. Re:11000m for the other 95% of the world. by daem0n1x · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thanks for the information. Slashdot should adopt a policy, like Wikipedia, that all measurement units should be metric with the alternatives in parenthesis. This way, everybody would be happy. Slashdot has editors. Is it so hard for them to fix this?